{"id":6923,"date":"2024-06-26T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:20:38","slug":"u-s-is-flying-blind-with-bird-flu-repeating-mistakes-of-covid-health-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/26\/u-s-is-flying-blind-with-bird-flu-repeating-mistakes-of-covid-health-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. is &#8216;flying blind&#8217; with bird flu, repeating mistakes of COVID, health experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/06\/24\/nx-s1-5015736\/bird-flu-outbreak-testing-pandemic-preparedness\">NPR<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of its potential to cause a pandemic, yet the U.S. has tested only about 45 people across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re flying blind,\u201d said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. With so few tests run, she said, it\u2019s impossible to know how many farmworkers have been infected, or how serious the disease is. A lack of testing means the country might not notice if the virus begins to spread between people \u2014 the gateway to another pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to be doing more testing. There\u2019s no doubt about that,\u201d said Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC\u2019s bird flu test is the only one the Food and Drug Administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/in-vitro-diagnostics\/influenza-diagnostic-tests\">has authorized for use<\/a>\u00a0right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/06\/24\/nx-s1-5015736\/bird-flu-outbreak-testing-pandemic-preparedness\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" RYUkTCX  DMaTaFTJb\"> RYUkTCX  DMaTaFTJb<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR It\u2019s been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of its potential to cause a pandemic, yet the U.S. has tested only about 45 people across the country. \u201cWe\u2019re flying blind,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11751,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/11751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}